can anyone give me any practical use of grid computing on a small scale?

Question

I need to know can i connect and share some of my computers together through grid computing so that the resources,cpu cycles and storage of one computer can be utilized by other.Is there nything else on a small scale in which grid computing can help?

Answer 1

SETI

Current 'real world' efforts are based on a loose Distributed Computing model where Berkeley acts as the 'hub' and everyone else act as more-or-less independant 'stand-alone' Compute Nodes.